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More info?)
>-----Original Message-----
>> may be i should clarify that all inbound traffic are
>> either forwarded to the corresponding ip (i.e. mail and
>> stuffs) or forwarded to a 'phantom' machine.
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>Ok, that shouldn't be anything to cause you trouble.
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>> at home, behind zonealarm and already set to allow
>> connection from work
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>For your first test, I would strongly advise disabling
zonealarm completely
>to make sure it's not interfering.
tried, no luck.
2nd, make sure (on both machines) that
>the built in XP firewall is completely disable. This
produces a lot of
>headaches for us an our customers whenever there are any
connectivity
>issues.
confirmed both machines has the xp firewall disabled.
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>About Zonealarm, I can say that when I first set up my
home network, even
>though I 'knew what I was doing', zonealarm gave me more
headaches and would
>cause more headscratching (I suddenly can't connect any
more) than it was
>worth. Zonealarms a good program for single computer,
but once you have a
>home network behind a router, careful configuration of
your router/firewall
>security will do extremely well for protecting yourself.
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>The next step would be to attempt to 'ping' your host
computer at home and
>see if you get a reply. Again, zonealarm in its default
state will block
>all ICMP (ping) traffic and therefore will make it look
like there's no
>machine at that address. So again, for the initial
testing phase, I
>strongly suggest turning zonealarm off to get a good
baseline.
yes, i am able to ping the host computer.
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>Lastly, and most simply, make sure the 'terminal
services' service is active
>and running on your host machine at home.
confirmed rdp is eabled.
one more note. i was able to connect before, even through
port 3389 or other ports below 443.
but i think the system admin. had changed the
configuration of the router, probably now he decided to
block all unnecessary ports.
that's why i wanna connect through the http port now.
thx.
>I read a lot of messages from
>people on this group simply being unable to make an rdp
connection to their
>system at home. With XP, this is extremely simple and
robust- so I have to
>assume that most of the people here are misunderstanding
something subtle
>about network communications or their setup. Let me
know what you find and
>we should get you going with little trouble. Good luck.
>
>Paul
>
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>> at work, with a linksys router and the sys.adm. has
>> control.
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>> >Paul
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>> >"Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> >news:c1cf01c43840$7965beb0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> >> all ports except port 80 are blocked at work. (i
think)
>> >> i have tried to connect through port 80 but with no
>> luck.
>> >>
>> >> is there any other way to get around this problem?
>> >>
>> >> thx.
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